skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll probably never happen, but we should look into solving the technical debt in our communications infrastructure – even if breaking backward-compatibility
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Huge issues and vulnerabilities wrt security and privacy that are probably solvable, but were never considered in the first place.
That sounds like a reasonable decision.

After all advertisement is nothing but begging to increase the profit of the advertiser. If I really need to buy something, I'm sure I can do so without advertisement.

Advertisement, be it some marketing phone call, someone offering me whatever subscription on the corridor of the mall, and ads making my phone browsing experience super slow are a much bigger nuisance to me than beggars.

The amount of various form of soliticing might vary where you live. But forbidding everything that's a nuisance to someone won't be the solution.
The repository[0] for J is just as unreadable (albeit with slightly more white space). I don’t know how a project is managed like this. Even the file names look obfuscated.

[0]: https://github.com/tavmem/j
What happened to ICQ: it still exists and so does your account.
I like this! Simple. I have the same problem with prompts. The worst for me in the past was when I did the behavior but forgot to log it. Then I’d get the depressing “you broke the streak” prompts and give up.

Worth noting the first goal is to just do the behavior, the Streaks app prompt is just a safety net. If all goes well, I should only see the prompt if I’m about to miss. My own internal habit development keeps the streak alive.
It's a hard sell for me at least. The downside to this is that it's tied to Google Cloud and requires learning Go while AWS has been offering this for years with a familiar language.

edit: its not tied to GCE but how would this convince someone already on AWS to make the switch?
He said mainly. No all.

You do understand that everyone gets social security as money if they need. The problems happen if they are unable to use that money to pay the rent. And yes indeed the main reason is some sort of intoxicant use, as they rather get more stuff than use the money for rent.

Legal debts are also not a reason not to pay rent, as one is protected from repaying them when it's about essentials. So that doesn't count either. As long as you're able to push the pay button in your online bank you use the default system. Only when that's not possible do you fall into the provided housing system. And not surprisingly drug use is a major reason for not pushing that pay button but rather taking the money and using it elsewhere. Does that honestly surprise you? What else could it even be?

That's why we have the second option with food stamps and provided housing. It's not perfect as people elsewhere have stated the obvious "Hey want to buy 20e foodstamp for 10e?". But still they get it.
FWIW I just tell most people to try Element. I can tell them about Matrix later. You can link them to https://element.io/get-started which is fairly good and skips a couple of steps.

The UX still isn't "great" or "delightful" but I have had people sign up and find be by email or matrix ID with no problem.
Let's not mix these two ecosystems.
The First result for me (https://www.trophi.com/page/600eb2036c0b5800157eb041) is proof why this idea of "all opinions are equal and should be given equal opportunity to be heard" is bunk.

Politics is a serious topic with, serious, almost always life-changing/defining/ending consequences. Immature people and people preoccupied with their own emotional issues should be signaled by the community at large that, maybe, they should first take care of themselves before they try to change/influence the community.

I'm not saying censure them or "deplatform" them. Just that they should not be encouraged/coddled/enabled. We got here because the position on people saying stupid stuff about politics in public was met with "just leave him/her be, everyone is entitled to their opinion". Yes, they are, but if those opinions are stupid and spoken in public they should be laughed at so that everyone is clear that sharing stupid opinions leads to loss of social standing.
> INTERESTING PURITAN FACTS: (...)

> 10. 90% of Puritan names were taken from the Bible. Some Puritans took pride in their learning by giving their children obscure Biblical names they would expect nobody else to have heard of, like Mahershalalhasbaz.

Like Mahershalalhasbaz Ali!
Yes, they have access to mental health services, and even rehabilitation services, but again only if you agree to it.
I’ve lived in LA, SF, and Boulder. Most of the homeless in these cities are not interested in being apart of society. They are perfectly happy with their lifestyle of mental health and drug addictions.

Yes, there is a minority of homeless struggling to rejoin society, but the (pardon verbiage) worst people have no interest or empathy for society.
Most languages have terrible CLI parsing support, I have yet to find something built in that matches Python’s argparse module. Hell, even “modern” languages like go suffer from this.
Are you American?
Square One: fair terms, free forms, back to work
Right. The government has salary caps but unlimited contractor budgets, for which the government pays transactional overhead. It's absolutely absurd.

The article is a hit piece by a Republican anti-big-government activist, and a dishonest one at that, focusing on salary and ignoring benefits ("makes more than the President", who has a massive personal service entourage and huge pension? Come on) and ignoring contractors who get paid far more.
Consumers warned of bots hoarding PS5s and other must-have items
I think the supposition is that if Google and FB have to pay for news articles from proper news outlets with proper journalists, they may decide not do. At the same time, people will not change their habits of getting their news from social media. This will lead to most people getting "news" from writers that are not qualified journalists, increasing the echo chamber effect and narrowing the range of information people have to reason with. This is the danger to democracy.
If we could actually reduce contact to 0 for 3 weeks, it would be the obvious thing to do!
Most American cities will do absolutely anything to reduce homelessness except build more housing: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-do-anything-to-en...

California cities are probably the worst offenders: https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-..., but even Austin is underbuilding relative to demand.
Austin story is simple: housing is overpriced, they are only slightly behind the same process as the SF Bay Area. In the time frame you mentioned Austin housing prices increased by 50%, which is ridiculous. There's not another mysterious cause of homelessness.
Nonetheless starting people off with something deprecated is not a good idea imo, and will only serve to making migration harder in the future because more and more people keep using said deprecated thing.
Elon Musks reply on twitter:

> To my surprise, Tesla has better AI hardware & software than Waymo (money)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1353564655088619520
Controversial issues aren't about logic or arguments. They're about sociopolitical issues, economics, and who has the most effective marketing plan.

I'd really love to see a site that tries to dispassionately explain why the Flat Earth movement exists (hint: it's probably not because a bunch of people really believe the Earth is flat) instead of just berating people for being dumb and wrong. You will never convince anyone of anything by calling them stupid.
Telegram bot to show similar telegram groups
> And why do you care so much who they are? They didn't harm you and in reality they didn't harm anyone. In the real world people don't deal with minor contractual grievances by naming and shaming.

Knowing who's reliable is everything.

The extended thread above yours adds extra light:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903101
Agree with this take 100%. It's one the reasons that I'm a big fan of the SAFe (Scaled Agile) approach here. Your only commitment is the next PI (8-12 weeks) and that's a commitment that comes from a plan made by developers from priorities provided to them by the org.

Anything after that is subject to change that the the organization can reserve the right to pivot to new opportunities if needed. Makes far more sense but it's enshrined in an official structure rather than a PM's preferences.
>because they prefer to get drunk instead of spending it on food and rent.

After a certain point, alcoholism is no longer a choice or preference, it's a debilitating disease. And before that point, it's frequently self-medication for untreated mental problems. Consider this: alcohol is the only mood-elevating drug sold freely, of course a percentage people will jump on it if they have massive problems.

Not going to criticize the Finnish system as I know nothing about it, but probably the only way to get to those people is give them homes, food and clothing and try (again and again) to get them to reduce alcohol intake and/or get psychiatric treatment - and accept you won't be able to get all of them to accept that.
>If it is not effective enough, then we are back to poisoning the water with delta-endotoxins, where we know the consequences on things that are not mosquitos are far more severe.

This is a good point, and probably has more harmful actions behind it. "Don't do $NEWTHING" is not the same as "do nothing." Think of all the things humans already do to reduce the harm from mosquitos:

- Bug zappers (which aren't even good at attracting mosquitos)
- Draining marshlands
- Dumping standing water (toads also use this for laying eggs)
- Insect repellent (i.e., spreading harmful chemicals in nature)
- Introducing predators

Mosquito nets are, AFAICT, the only method without collateral damage.
Scaling Development Teams for Israeli Startups in 2021
I'm just saying that criticizing individual people or groups is irrelevant when it was so widespread. Clearly the problems are/were systemic, so it's more productive to focus on the systemic causes than blaming individuals.
The good news is Israel remains a top startup nation in 2021. Still, its demand for qualified IT professionals exceeds the number of software developers and engineers graduating from its 60 colleges and universities each year. The dichotomy comes in that while striving to reach and compete on the global market, many Israeli startups and companies are very reluctant to go international with their teams. Maybe they need a different justification for outsourcing? One path forward sees outsourcing not just to increase development capacity, but to develop the personnel and project management capabilities of your in-house developers.
The iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera
Founder of RemoteLeaf here, I'm building this project in public, sharing all the revenue details, small wins, churns, struggles and I hope it will be useful for fellow indiehackers.
That's fair. So long as they're still working with you through it (and if they goofed, are working to resolve it), it's fine. I was concerned for a moment they'd ghosted.
Where do you read that hw3 isn't enough?
training the user is never the correct response to UI/UX issues.

Fixing your UI/UX is.

Shocking, I know.
dictatorships are the best - as long as your dictator is benevolent...
Some issues I see on HN new links are:

- People missusing flagging as if it was sort of "super downvote"

- Coordinated groups of people promoting certain news, like programming communities (spam for tech solutions)

- Meaningless blog posts crafted only to drag HN users onto them (low value but appear to be voted enough somehow)

EDIT: format
Do you have an update on the status of this work? Seems like it hasn't been worked on recently
> ICQ seemed to struggle with competing with MSN Messanger and AOL Instant Messanger, despite the first mover advantage.

Not in Germany. ICQ was the messenger. MSN and AIM were something that sometimes popped up but had no real relevance for most people. I knew more people in school who used IRC than MSN or AIM.
"I'm rubber, your glue". A completely void reply.
> Amarisoft LTE and NR network software suit is a unique full software LTE and NR solution ... Our binary licenses can be fixed and bounded to a single hardware, floating on a USB dongle, or floating using a license server.

I suppose it's possible that their product includes some Open Source Software, while still using node-locked licenses. But it doesn't sound like it.

This press release [1] from 2020 makes it sound like Amarisoft is working on OpenRAN.

[1] https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-businesswire/56f3c23c33a...
A bit of a jump. I mean I get that you dislike advertising and I agree with you, but equating it to begging is reaching and diluting the discussion with your issue is adding confusion.
Uh, no. I'm finnish. You go to social security and they fix you with an apartment. It is mostly due to the decisions of the homeless that they remain homeless.
I think the title might do a good job in this case since most people do not read the small print of the user manuals of the devices. Now if you or someone in your family has such a medical device you might be a bit more carefull where you set the phone when charging.
> Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city.

Austin city council removed a ban on camping in public in 2019. The pitch was that it "decriminalized homelessness".

Austin is still a liberal city, but revocation of the ban is now widely reviled given the tents and trash that have grown everywhere, without doing anything really to help homeless people. There is an initiative on the ballot for an election in May to reinstate the camping ban, and I'd take a 100-to-1 bet it will pass.
I think there's a growing acceptance that SS7 is a protocol from the past. It's based on a set of assumptions (around telecoms operators being trustworthy) that just never held true.

The problem is that it continues to be the lowest common denominator for a lot of the world to stay connected from a telecoms perspective.

Moving to newer protocols makes a lot of sense, but for much of the developing world I imagine they'll continue to rely on legacy technologies like SS7 for some time to come, as they have that hardware in place etc.

The driver away from legacy equipment in the West will likely be the skills shortage as engineers retire and there's a need to move to newer equipment that can be maintained and understood. There's enough of a shortage of new talent, let alone new talent that understands the old telecoms world way of thinking.
I looked into this, and it does seem the vaccine reduces transmission. It just doesn’t stop it entirely. The paper below is Wikipedia’s source. Upon a close read, in the daycare there were three groups of vaccinated children:

* Those positive for antibodies but pcr negative —> had been exposed, cleared virus without infection

* those pcr positive but asymptomatic

* those pcr positive and symptomatic

About 30% were in the seropositive group which didn’t have pcr positivity. So it seems like transmission was reduced at least 30%. It’s also possible the other two groups would have had lower transmission rates than if they had had no vaccine.

If you have a more precise source I’d be interested to see it, but if this is the worst case it’s pretty good!

> We used PCR, EIA, and culture to confirm B. pertussis infection in two highly vaccinated groups of children in two day-care centers. Three (10%) of 30 2- to 3-year-old children were seropositive for recent infection; one had nasopharyngeal colonization and a clinical illness that met the modified WHO case definition. In the day-care center for the 5- to 6- year-old group, 9 (55%) of 16 children were IgM positive, 4 (25%) of whom had nasopharyngeal colonization. Of these four children, three had nonspecific cough, and only one met the modified WHO definition for pertussis. None of the children in our study, including those who met the WHO definition, had been examined by a physician before our investigation.

>Children who were seropositive and re- mained both asymptomatic and PCR negative probably had sufficient immunity from vaccines or natural boosters to protect them against persistent colonization and clinical disease. Their seropositivity could not be due to vaccine because the children were tested more than a year after having been vaccinated.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627963/pdf/109...
For basically everyone cookies == tracking. That is pretty much their only user-visible purpose. I think the best way forward would be to heavily restrict the persistent data that websites (that aren't installed as apps) can store in the browser to basically just an authentication token that is only sent by the browser and not accessible to JS.

It's kinda silly that we can't manage our website logins via the browser without clearing all the cookies for a site.
They already have all of that. The next step is forcing them, which is unpalatable as you can imagine.
I'll be happy to retract the "hateful" comment if anyone can provide evidence that "people are mainly homeless in Finland because they would prefer to get drunk".
>Something in the handling of the homeless problem had failed in that city

I'd wager that they made the problem worse by importing rich people with a high tolerance for bad public policy and homelessness.
This is exactly why we need micropayments on the web. Without correct solutions from the open source movement and the open Web, the State will end up doing stuff like this.

We have been building a community-to-publisher micropayment model. You can read about the economics of it here: https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#ECONOMICS

And furthermore, all these projects should start adopting the Web Monetization stardard, based on Interledger Protocol. Coil is a company started by Stefan Thomas (former CTO of Ripple) to effect micropayments on the Web. They teamed up with Mozilla to make this a standard. We are participating to implement it in all our open source community servers:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/03/web-monetization-coil-and-...
You're 100% correct, as it stands there's not a great outcome. What we need is for social media to have to pay for the information they profit from, whilst at the same time ensuring that official media outlets have to produce quality, well researched, fact-led journalism. If we have both of these things then we win.
Hi, I tried running the example from https://github.com/CondensationDB/Condensation-java/tree/mas... with the HTTP store from https://condensation.io/servers/php-files/. However, it seems that the later is outdated. Is there a functioning store available?
Common problem here as well.

Wonder if it would be difficult to provide more detailed estimate for the delivery (through app) based on couriers location and list of pending deliveries.
You didn't get my point.

GMO mosquitos are a completely UNPREDICTABLE path.
This is unsurprising to me. Global heat retention changes are mostly due to changes in the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases. While the rate at which those greenhouse gases is added has dropped due to the economic effects of the pandemic, the absolute concentration of greenhouse gases is still increasing. Combined with the destabilization of the polar vortex, I anticipate the ice melt rate to continue to increase.
This is a biased game showing your point of view. I actually clicked it thinking it would show all possibilities.

It is quite right there is a lot of misinformation being peddled.
Hey, credit for lessons learned and all that, right? It's always uncomfortable when we end up in a disagreement when we're just trying to contribute to the discussion. As a dispassionate third party it's easier for me to chalk it up to where things could have gone better than to pass out fault and assign you both goals and motives I can't actually know.

When I was in school they tried to teach us self-esteem and all that, and that nobody else could make us feel any certain way. Water off a duck's back and all that. There's a little truth to that, but it's largely bullshit. The real truth they didn't so much teach is that conversation is not happenstance and although such a thing as talent for it may be real, it's mostly a skillset. It can be practiced and learned. It can even be trained.

One of you said something that wasn't quite unambiguously clear, which is an opportunity to improve. The other took one of those possible meanings and ran with it, offering a different valid interpretation of the phrasing and a correction based on that point of view. That's another opportunity to improve. Getting to the shared understanding first rather than after the fact would have been nice, but we're all human (or at least passed this instance of the Turing test) here.

Thanks for not being a dick about it, and I for one happily accept your apology.
> Not to say the general approach is bad, but I think the cost side is overplayed.

Not sure why I, as an immigrant to Europe myself, should pay cover the cost for illegal aliens while I cannot provide properly for my own relatives in my home country. It is unconscionable.
The specs are here:

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tesla_(car_company)/fsd_chip
My ICQ number is etched into my brain 82875759. Such a huge part of my early internet usage (that and IRC).
Taboola to go public at $2.6B valuation
> Related news: European Court of Human Rights just made important ruling that decriminalizes begging. Making it criminal to be poor is against human rights.

Lol, you're taking a very ungenuine shortcut.
Legal residents who also happen to be poor do not resort to begging because they receive help through the appropriate welfare programs.
The the overwhelming large majority of people affected by this law are foreigners who take advantage of Schengen to come to a rich country only for begging. These people have no legitimity of being here and earn no sympathy from me.
My Grand Cherokee has a radar unit that states the same warning about stationary objects. It appears the part is from Bosch and fit for Grand Cherokees and Durangos.
There have been a lot of remailers in the past. It's hard for me to see what legitimate purpose this service provides for Mozilla as an organization or for users of the free web. It would be nice to have an account-specific email address that is not shared with other services. (We kinda have that with the "+" trick.) But it can't process replies so that dramatically limits the use-cases for non-spammers.
Awesome. I guess two comments on learn-anything -- is there an easy way for external users to add something? I get it's open source but when you search for something, maybe a "suggest resource" would speed up curation of resources via human indexing.

The other big thing that would be helpful is a "videos" node where you could link to videos on the subject. A lot of people that I talk to struggle learning completely new topics just by reading. Some of the feedback I hear is that a few videos goes a long way to introducing something new, so a videos node could be useful in the overall graph.
You can show them though, get them to talk to other people who have been in a similar situation, have been helped out of it, and have now a better life.
Perhaps because they don't trust people, and not without cause.

https://www.wired.com/story/99-phones-fake-google-maps-traff...
I feel like these should also include production/manufacturing emissions per vehicle. The rare-earth metals and lithium for batteries (for example) don't just appear out of thin air. Private cars have a many many externalities, not only the energy used to move the vehicle.
Exactly so. I mean there's plenty of people that are not homeless but because of poverty can't get to the next tier of said hierarchy.